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David E. Lilienthal
(8 Jul 1899 - 15 Jan 1981)
American government administrator and author who was the first Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1947-1950). He wrote books, including about business, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the atomic bomb and atomic energy.
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Science Quotes by David E. Lilienthal (1 quote)
Atomic energy bears that same duality that has faced man from time immemorial, a duality expressed in the Book of Books thousands of years ago: “See, I have set before thee this day life and good and death and evil … therefore choose life.”
— David E. Lilienthal
In This I Do Believe edited by Edward R. Murrow (1949).
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- 8 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Lilienthal's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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